If you’re a building manager, you’ll know what a floor can need. It needs maintenance, patience, repair, (and some would say despair), to manage it well. The new secret weapon for building owners and managers is concrete! Not just any concrete, though. Polished concrete floors!
What’s so great about these floors? They’re actually a whole new approach to flooring:
- They can be very well and easily maintained and kept looking good
- They can last for decades
- They’re extremely tough and reliable
- They can handle loads that would destroy other types of flooring with ease
- Concrete is comparatively extremely cheap
- Concrete floors are also structurally very useful in any building
You may not think of a floor as a revolutionary event in your life, but these things are, in many ways. The floor is the largest occupied space in any building. It takes the punishment of heavy usage. Most other types of flooring cost a fortune to maintain. Not polished concrete. It soaks up the punishment and barely even gets scratched.
The concrete floors also soak up the costs that would be otherwise involved in maintaining other types of flooring. The economics are great for building owners. They don’t have those costs, so their net costs of building maintenance go down. That reduces costs to consumers, business and everyone else. A revolution in costs, good design and good management. It’s even great for homes!
Source: http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/polishing/design-ideas/restoration.html
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